Quotes About Limitations

Infinite power just isn't very interesting, no matter what game you're playing. It's much more fun when you have a limited tool set to use against the odds.

We have to remain humble about our understanding of the brain, because even our most powerful tools remain pretty blunt instruments for decoding the brain. In fact, we still do not know how to decipher the basic language of how the brain works.

All models have faults - that doesn't mean you can't use them as tools for making decisions.

When I first started in the industry, there were - this is prior to the era of computer graphics and all these digital tools - there were some pretty rigid, technologically imposed limitations about how you shoot things, because if you didn't shoot 'em the right way, you couldn't make the shot work.

Even in the best of times, the United States' ability to influence events in faraway places is limited. The tools we have, from soft power and diplomacy to sanctions and bombing campaigns, are never guaranteed to succeed.

But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography.

I had no illusions that my career would be any longer than three years tops.

It's really fun and totally a new experience shooting at home with limited resources.

One of the hardest lessons we all have to learn is how few choices life gives to a civilized woman with any conscience at all.

how often do you suppose you were told what you can do or what you can accomplish in life?

Most of our stress is the result of mental programs that tell us what we cannot overcome.

Stop expecting more from us than we can possibly provide, and you'll stop being so disappointed.

It's like having a chronic health condition that you control with medication. The condition will always be there and you take your pill, but you can't make a life around it. You can't be defined as a person because of it. You can't limit your dreams because of it. You accept it and go on. Life is too short to do otherwise.

You took my Lotus!" Sissy choked on her champagne, and Ronnie started looking for the exits or law enforcement with arrest warrants. Lord, what is the statute of limitations again?

I don't have the time. It would take me too long to go through all of the math.

For one thing, when you're playing as well as I was at the time, you think you can play with anything. That isn't true, of course, but I didn't know it then.

There's never enough money, there's never enough time, there's never enough reliable help around, anything you plan always goes wrong - it's just hard to be human, isn't it?

What writing ROOM taught me was that I know exactly how to be the perfect mother, but I'm not willing to do it for more than ten minutes at a time.

The Simpsons was pretty experimental at the time, but it attracted a lot of sitcom writers that felt confined by the limitations of live-action sitcoms in the '80s.

Lukewarm people will serve God and others, but there are limits to how far they will go or how much time, money, and energy they are willing to give.

You need to have the humility to accept your limitations as long as they're there, and have the humility to accept their end when that time comes.

Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.

I know I am unreasonable about people but there are so many wonderful people whom I can't take the time to know.

He said he didn't very well understand how George was going to sleep any more than he did now, seeing that there were only twenty-four hours in each day.